On July 7, 2025, Rogelio Alberto Ayala Gutiérrez, head of the Fourth District Court in Mexicali, Baja California, issued a suspension in favor of Julio César Chávez Carrasco, son of former boxing champion Julio César Chávez González. He had been under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) since 2019 for organized crime, particularly arms and drug trafficking.
In his ruling, the federal judge ruled out preventing Chávez Carrasco from being detained once deported to Mexico, based on the arrest warrant issued against him, so that the criminal proceedings would be respected and the boxer would be handed over to the competent Mexican authorities. Ayala Gutiérrez stated that, if detained in Mexico, Chávez Carrasco would be placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and if the arrest warrant against him was executed, he would be placed at the disposal of the judge in charge of the case.
“All of the above is true, unless it involves the execution of an arrest warrant issued by a judicial authority, in which case he must be placed immediately at the disposal of the same,” stated the head of the Fourth District Court in Mexicali.
The ruling was issued in an injunction filed on Friday, July 4, 2025, by an attorney on behalf of Chávez Carrasco. It implied that as soon as the boxer was deported, the Attorney General’s Office could execute the arrest warrant and transfer him to a federal prison.
Ayala Gutiérrez gave Chávez Carrasco, who is still detained in the United States, a three-day deadline to state whether or not he would ratify this request for protection. Failure to do so would result in his legal appeal being deemed inadmissible.
